Small Birds Nuisance.
AN EFFECTIVE POISON. Per Press Association. Wellington, May 13. ' Mr A s^ on > chemist to" the Agricultural Department, who has been at Ashburton experiincnting .with poison, for small bird with a view to ascertaining the most effective method of , dealing with the nuisance, reports that the results of his experiments demonstrate indisputably that strychnine preparations mixed- dry. were so much more: elective- that he, advises the j abandonment --of .- ' other- 1 methods , of v mixing at 'present practised in" poisoning in favour of the following t:— Ten '■ pounds of ;gsoo,d. sound wheat thorough' v ly damped- with fi'esh) milk so that the grain .'-'is*-' wet biit not .dripping with nibisture ?>five Sixteenths - of an ounce (avoivdtipoie) -of powdered etx-ychmn6, jiot'tbo v fiiie,' gradually shaken' on to. i)he"gr;ai In/1 n/ thp whole be:nj|"* 'kept* 6on- :; , stantly ' > stirred. 'WH^H ( . 'thWbug-hlj' mixed/thb" '' gram J " should' "b^ laid at once •.', this^is best' done , by a good train *of chaff, without oats 1 1> attract the. attention of the birds, v and. lightly, sprinkling; the , .mixture -. on chaff. The . quantity \ mentioned , he estimates 'is safScient 'to / j>oiaon, a quarter- 'of a ■- miilion Sparrows'. He adds thaft'lea'ks, greeif" linnets, blackbirds; - thrushes^ "and chaffinches will alsp '"take the "poison. ' ■'-'■'-^ ' •' ' :
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12255, 14 May 1903, Page 7
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205Small Birds Nuisance. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12255, 14 May 1903, Page 7
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